GHAZIABAD: A 21-year-old LLB student, son of a deputy manager with an insurance company, has not been able to register a police complaint pertaining to unauthorised withdrawals of Rs 2.2 lakh from his bank account two and a half months ago despite repeated efforts.The student’s father, Bhupendra Chopra, said the bank had refused to initiate any action in the matter until an FIR was filed.“Although the account is in my son’s name, the ATM card remains with me and I operate it most of the time. On June 8, I received five messages about online transactions using the debit card. First, Rs 10,000 was transferred to an account in Noida and then Rs 2.10 lakh was transferred to a foreign university in four installments,” Chopra said.“When I approached the bank, they connected me to their senior officials in Mumbai. I was told to lodge an FIR for the bank to initiate action. I went to Kavi Nagar police station to lodge an FIR, but the cops there just took my application and gave me an acknowledgement. No FIR was registered,” he added. Chopra said that since then, he had submitted complaints with the cyber cell and the SSP’s office, but to no avail.Chopra suspects his debit card was cloned during a transaction at a retail shop or at an ATM kiosk, and then used for illegal transactions. Circle officer II (city) Atish, under whose jurisdiction Kavi Nagar police station falls, said: “I will look into the matter and see that an FIR is registered in the case.”Two similar cases pertaining to unauthorised withdrawals from bank accounts were reported at police stations of Sihani Gate and Kavi Nagar on Tuesday. Ravidutt Sharma, an employee with a private firm in Kavi Nagar, claimed an unauthorised withdrawal of Rs 36,000 from his account with the State Bank of India on Monday. In the second case, Rs 21,999 was withdrawn from a Syndicate Bank account of Naresh Kumar, a resident of Sihani Gate and a schoolbus driver, in several transactions between August 8 and August 27.

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